Chapter 329: The Rise of the Primarch: The Last Legion

The pale light flickered under the huge dome, and the pale light seemed to come from a dying star without any temperature. The planet had collapsed into a white dwarf after trillions of years, and in the final burning, it shone its last light on the equally cold star field.

Under the light of this "planet" were cold armors, which were stacked together to completely protect the steel body below. Their owner, the soulless robot wearing armor that the empire could no longer recast and even could not understand the physical principles of, stood under the light.

It was an extremely huge war machine, with a burly body towering under the incandescent lights above and around it, but its tall and extended external armor layer blocked the light above its head and shredded it. Shadows of different sizes were cast on the lower side of its burly body, silently setting off the hugeness of the war machine built by humans.

Above the shadow below the chest, the angular head was completely exposed to the light. The pale light completely illuminated the head with only one eye. In the center of the dazzling incandescent light, the mechanical eye composed of countless rings and incomprehensible technological structures in the center of the steel head was dimly silent. It opened its eyes, but there was nothing alive under it.

The tall robot looked at the trestle across the endless warehouse in front of it. The long bridge was like a world bridge across this sea of ​​steel, allowing those who passed through it to pass unimpeded over the endless steel army, and at the same time, they could overlook these sleeping iron men through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the long bridge.

At this moment, there was indeed a person walking on the long bridge, a golden giant, a man whose mind was filled with countless memories when he saw these steel objects. He walked on the long bridge and looked at the things outside through the curved glass window on one side of the closed steel corridor.

The man named Vito Constantine was walking on the long bridges made of steel window frames and curved glass. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows cut through the walls of the corridor, and like display windows, they showed the iron army outside to the passers-by.

Vito held Helen's optical disc in his huge hand wearing golden power armor. The little artificial intelligence lady standing on it also had her hands behind her back, looking at the endless iron army outside the window with Vito with her blue glowing eyes.

Around the giant multi-legged war machine standing outside the window were war beasts that were smaller in size but also equipped with countless advanced weapons. Their tall bodies stood majestically in the endless sea of ​​machines, just like mountains and islands protruding from the seabed.

The islands were also covered with trees, with diamond-shaped shooting holes, and the "trees" that could blow up the entire palace in the blink of an eye stood there, with their huge supporting feet stepping on the endless iron infantry below.

Vito looked down at them. Under the feet of those huge war beasts, there were even more iron infantry that covered the entire warehouse floor like an ocean. Those bipedal or beast-like steel soldiers stood together with the same kinetic guns, pulse guns, ion guns, etc. as in memory, just like a parade formation.

Vito's eyes scanned them from a high altitude. Some of those iron infantry held guns or advanced individual heavy weapons, while others held weapons that looked like cold weapons, long swords, sharp axes or spears, but believe me, you won't think they are easy to bully after a horizontal comparison.

Because the reason is very simple. Although they are both cold weapons, the swords and spears held by the barbarian settlements in the wild world or the old farmers in the feudal world are still a little different from those held by the Necrons, so yes, the "cold weapons" here are also the same.

Vito looked at a steel beast, which was a saber-toothed tiger, or at least a beast-like beast. The only difference between it and the beasts of its prototype was that their bodies were made of meat and bones, while its body was completely made of steel and hydraulic structure.

The sharp decomposition claws were closed and grasped on the ground. They could pounce on it in an instant and tear open the armor of the Space Marines, and the sharp teeth that tore the warriors below into splattered flesh were also quietly closed in its mouth. The mechanical eyeballs on the steel face were hanging lifelessly, dim and lightless, falling into a seemingly eternal sleep.

Vito looked at everything here. He raised his eyes and looked at the end of the iron army that could not be seen at all. The silver-gray and iron-colored ocean extended to the end of the vision. There was no end in sight. Only the farthest steel wall, depicting the ancient symbol of the Golden Age and the Gothic font of the warehouse here, stood tall.

"Terra - Final High Wall Defense Plan - The Last Iron Guard." The Gothic font description and imprint were under the ancient Sky Eagle, which belonged to the ancient years, the last peak of mankind, and the symbol of the Golden Age Sky Eagle.

"That Sky Eagle, I remember that it was exactly the same as the Imperial logo before the Mechanicus joined the Empire and changed the Sky Eagle logo from single-headed to double-headed. Do you remember? It was during the Terra Unification War."

"Of course, of course I remember. That guy has always been nostalgic, missing the peak of the beautiful golden age, so when the unification war began, he used the Federation's Sky Eagle logo as his own logo, the Empire's logo, probably for good thoughts and auspiciousness, although he really likes to make a weird mix of decorative arts from the ancient times with the present."

In a sense, it can be regarded as a kind of nostalgia, Vito thought, that guy has always been nostalgic, otherwise it wouldn't have been 40 thousand years, and the Empire's decorative style would still be Gothic and Victorian, or even the older Roman style. That guy really made a surprising and non-mainstream mix of science fiction and classical.

Vito smiled bitterly when he thought of this. He lowered his head and looked at the iron men below. "He has stored a whole legion of iron men here for nostalgia. The iron men army is complete with all kinds of sea, land and air forces. Hum, he is really nostalgic in every sense."

Vito said as he walked across the long "cross-sea" bridge. He walked over the endless sleeping iron men army under his feet and walked along the long corridor to the main control room at the other end of the gate.

He looked at the closed gate in front of him. The golden sky eagle of the current empire was already imprinted on the gate. The steel door frame was also decorated with the kind of rich gold decoration that the old man liked. He really likes everything to be shiny. What is this? Just like the greenskins think that tanks will be more powerful if they are painted red?

Vito smiled bitterly and brought Helen's optical disc close to the terminal on the side of the gate, "Open the door, we don't have much time. I guess there may have been a fight on the track."

"Well, you are right. There was a fight. The outer Imperial Navy fleet has already engaged Chaos, and it collapsed as expected."

Helen looked at the terminal as she spoke. She just raised her hand and waved at the instrument, and the terminal immediately lit up and started to work with a flashing Sky Eagle logo. As the Sky Eagle flashed, the closed door in front of Vito also opened.

Vito looked at the Sky Eagle logo in front of him, which was separated from the center and slid into the door frame on both sides. He smiled and shrugged, "Abaddon is still so impatient, just like his father Horus."

As he spoke, Vito walked into the control room behind the door. It was interesting that compared with most of the Empire's battleship bridges and the headquarters of the Hive City, or even a single Titan's cockpit, this place was much smaller, in fact, a little unbelievably small.

You know, as a system control room that can take over, control and coordinate all the defense systems of Terra, from the ground-based anti-aircraft firepower on the ground, the orbital firepower on the track, and even the positions on the moon, this place is so small that it makes people wonder if it is a utility room for brooms and mops or something else.

But this is indeed it. Vito walked into this prototype control room, which is smaller than the larger Titan cockpit. He looked at the arc-shaped CNC glass windows covering the entire wall in front of him. They are exactly the same as the glass windows in the Sky Blade bridge. Before being activated, they were shrouded in darkness, like a black wall.

Vito looked at the matte glass surface, then strode to the terminal device located in front of the glass. Vito flipped Helen's optical disc with his fingers. He looked at the silver optical disc that was flexibly flipped in his huge fingers, "By the way, you see, this is so similar to the Sky Blade. What do you think about changing the skin I mentioned to you before? Just a bikini will do. I guarantee it will be awesome with my 40,000 years of experience."

"Sir, how did you jump from the issue of Terra being bombed and the entire galaxy being flattened by Abaddon to the issue of me wearing a swimsuit?"

Helen's voice came from the optical disc. Her image had disappeared because of Vito's flipping, but she was still in it. This small optical disc carried her digital core, just like carrying her soul.

"I'm just trying to ease the atmosphere. Anyway, this isn't the first time I've saved the empire and the world, so it doesn't matter this time." Vito said as he gently placed Helen's CD on the terminal. He stepped back a few steps, put his hands behind his back and looked at the screens that were all lit up in front of him. In an instant, the entire dark control room lit up.

All the dark screens around Vito flickered, and soon the Federation's eagle logo flashed briefly on them. Along with the huge eagle logo that almost covered the entire field of vision, a large number of scrolling data and information windows lit up on the CNC glass in front of Vito.

The data torrent that was like a tsunami bursting through the dam rushed out and washed over the window, just like a real tsunami hitting the command room window high up on the flood control dam, but Vito was not panicked at all. He stood calmly in front of the data torrent, his eyes calmly watching the chaotic pop-up windows that kept appearing and disappearing in front of him.

He had nothing to worry about. Although the chaotic intensity of this data would probably blow up the brain of a Mechanicus priest the moment he accessed it, in a physical sense, before he was completely drowned by this crazy data tsunami and went insane, his brain processor would be burned to charcoal.

But he was not worried about this problem, because compared to Helen, all the current technical priests had broken computers from the transistor era.

The artificial intelligence lady stood on the terminal in front of Vito. Her fingers slid quickly in front of her. She quickly browsed the windows one by one and threw them aside. As Helen clicked and manipulated the entire interface, the data tsunami soon Being under control, everything started to become clearer.

Vito looked at the scrolling lists in front of him, which were the list of automatic system interfaces on the entire Terra. From here, he could directly take over Terra's defense system, void shield, rail gun and the entire star port and The hive network will be placed under the control of this small artificial intelligence girl in front of Vito, who is only a finger high in the palm of Vito's hand.

"Sir, I need permission." Helen pushed open a lot of windows in front of her. She turned to look at Vito behind her. Vito, wearing gold armor, stood in front of the screen with his hands behind his back. He smiled slightly. After nodding, he looked at the screen with the Empire Skyhawk logo flashing in front of him. The logo was like an iron rope, covering all the control panels below it.

Vito looked at the golden eagle and cleared his throat. He raised his head slightly and spoke softly, "System identification authority, the return of the king."

"Permissions expired, welcome back, Grand Marshal." A cold mechanical voice sounded from around the main control room. The voice sounded like a servitor. Vito frowned in confusion as he listened to the voice.

"Generalissimo?"

"Don't you like it? Sir." Helen smiled and turned her head to start operating the system. With a few clicks of her fingers, the entire system began to take over. Windows quickly passed by, and the flashing indicator switches slid past with her fingers. And all lit up.

"Nonsense, it sounds like an idiot military aristocrat from a certain empire, giving himself a bunch of exaggerated and idiotic titles. Really, anyone in the Imperial Astra Militarum can be called Grand Marshal now, and the title Marshal is useless. It's almost devalued by them." Vito complained as he looked at the windows that were passing by quickly. Helen's efficiency was very fast, and the entire system was almost under control.

"The system has been taken over and all orbital weapons are under my control. Do you need me to activate the Iron Man Legion? Their systems are operating normally. Although there are some energy shortages, I only need to recharge them."

"No, Helen, you don't need to take over the orbital system. Let them continue to sleep." Vito interrupted Helen and said. He looked at the flashing Iron Man Legion system node beside him, which was like a keyhole. , floating there like a keyhole opening the cage of a sleeping beast.

It flickers, flickering with the ion light projected on it, as if inviting the user here to activate it, awakening the most powerful beast ever created by mankind.

"Sir, weren't these iron men originally stored here by you and the Emperor as a last resort when Terra was completely isolated and about to be breached?" Helen pressed one hand on the holographic projection in front of her, but But his head turned around and looked at Vito behind him in surprise.

"I think this is the last moment. I don't think I need to remind you that the power of Chaos is several times that of the defenders of Terra, and there are a large number of Astartes troops at their disposal, and currently the main defense forces on Terra are They are ordinary humans, with only a handful of Imperial Guards and Gray Knights.”

"If you allow me, I can completely activate the iron and intelligent fleets here so that the invasion force can be annihilated without even landing. This can minimize Terra's casualties by billions or even tens of billions." population casualties.”

"Then we have to fight another civil war. Whether we fight it with iron men or not, it will cause the same scale of casualties. The only difference is that this time it is fought by humans themselves, just like at the end of the Golden Age."

Vito said calmly and looked at the activation keyhole of the Iron Man system. He turned his head decisively to look at the other interfaces in front of him. Vito's eyes reflected the faint blue light on the CNC glass, and dots of light beams were projected on the black on the pupils.

"If the Iron Man appears on Terra and saves the Throne World and the Emperor, what we will receive will not be a joyful celebration, but a great religious schism that will immediately occur. The Ecclesiastical Church will clearly oppose the Emperor and regard it as The Iron Man, who is as cursed as the devil, saved Terra and the Empire. He fell into religious confusion about what this meant, and eventually split into two factions and started fighting for the "new truth."

"And the other wave of people, believe me, the confusion and the curse of iron man technology that led to the fall of the Dark Mechanicus will also cause them to have another great division of Mars. I guess those oil guys can use this to knock out the parts of each other's colleagues. , the entire Mars will fall into a chaotic civil war. As Abaddon is driven back and the warp storm dissipates, the news will quickly spread throughout the Empire, and all forge worlds throughout the Mechanicum will break out in a technological civil war like Mars, resulting in casualties No smaller than Abaddon would have done, maybe even bigger."

"Caul has just reunited those oil guys. I don't want to have the Great Sage do it again just two days later, and this time he will have to be sprayed with hundreds of years of poison by Guilliman. That kind of thing, I’ve always been the one to criticize others, and no one else has ever criticized me!”

Vito said sternly, although it seemed from the smile on his face that he was not that serious. Vito lowered his head and looked at Helen who was also looking at him, "They are the last choice in desperate situations, because as long as you choose this method , everything that will happen after that is just like the collapse of the golden age, and it is completely beyond human control.”

"The Iron Man plan is the final one, one of the final plans when everything must settle and the final moment truly arrives. They do not belong to the present, but to the moment that must come."

Vito fell silent as he spoke, recalling in his mind the plan the Emperor had mentioned, that crazy plan, the final moment of the final battle he said.

Vito closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. Helen on the other side frowned slightly. She looked at Vito in front of her with some worry, "Sir?"

"I'm fine, Helen. If you want to activate Iron Man, you must at least wait until Horus's bastard arrives at the gate of the palace. It's not the last moment, but we do have a battle to fight, so take over Terra's system. "Vito opened his eyes and said firmly. He nodded slightly to Helen, who also nodded affirmatively in response.

The artificial intelligence lady turned around and faced the large number of data nodes in front of her. Her finger lightly clicked on the screen. As her finger touched the point, beams of light quickly shot to all the surrounding data nodes. The systems all flickered instantly, and those flickering lights eventually turned into new beams of light and converged under Helen's fingers.

"Helen."

"What's the matter, sir?"

"Make a subroutine and starter that can activate the Iron Man Legion. I will take it to face Abaddon, although I still want to beat that naughty kid myself."

Vito smiled faintly behind Helen. The artificial intelligence girl in front of him also turned her back to him, showing a faint smile where he could not see.

"As you command, sir."

Helen took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She slowly raised her hands in front of Vito's eyes. As Helen raised her arms, the whole underground world shook. Vito raised his head and looked around at the violent tremors. The underground structure, the whole world trembled with the rise of Helen's arms.

Bell, who was outside the dark gate, suddenly raised his head and looked at the dome of the palace that was shaking violently above his head. The earthquake beneath his feet was shaking, as if a giant dragon buried deep under Terra was awakening and rising from under the earth. .

Everyone around Bell raised their heads. Eisenstein and Trajan, as well as all the imperial guards and shadow guards around them, looked up at the shaking ceiling above them. The statues in the dungeon were hanging from their hands. The lantern was shaking in the vibration, and the candle flame in it was also shaking in the shaking, shining the shaking firelight on the statue's face.

On the ground, there was also a candle in the emperor's shrine that was also shaking. The believers praying in front of it looked around in panic at the shaking high-rise buildings in the hive city. The crowd screamed and there was a huge chaos on the street. , even the military policemen with guns suddenly panicked.

The gendarme in the middle of the street stood in the chaotic crowd and looked forward with his gun in hand. He soon widened his eyes in the shadow of the rising behemoth. The gendarme stared blankly at the giant creation rising from the earth. The panicked crowd around him also stopped and looked at the giant thing in the shadow that blocked the sun.

It was a turbine cannon rising slowly from the depths of the hive city. The magnificent cannon, as tall as a building, was rising slowly from among the tall buildings in the hive city, like a giant tower rising from the ground to the sky.

"Where's the other one!" Someone in the crowd shouted and pointed into the distance. Everyone on the street looked at what was behind the huge cannon. It was the second one! That is the mouth of the second giant cannon, and not only that, there are more, more giant cannons are rising.

As the entire Terra trembled, giant cannons reaching the sky lifted their huge bodies from the shadows buried deep underground in the hive city. Those rail guns that blocked the sun cast a large shadow on the city. , projected on the astonished residents of Terra standing on the street.

They all looked at the huge cannon in front of them that covered the sky. The muzzle was pointed at the sky. Gradually, a shining beam of light lit up in the muzzle. In an instant, a huge beam of light was shot towards the sky with a roar that shook the earth. In the sky, as the cannon's body receded under the impact, a huge shock wave shook the residents on the entire street.

They stepped back continuously. Some people fell to the ground and looked up at the huge laser beam that shot through the sky. The laser pierced the sky of Terra in the blink of an eye, and it shot through the orbit around Terra. of the Imperial Fleet.

The beam of light roared past the Infinite Frontier. The scarlet beam of light instantly illuminated the entire bridge. Captain Cole stood on the high platform and turned his head sharply to look at the huge beam of light whizzing past the window.

The huge laser beam shot directly through the wide gap between the warships and shot through a Chaos frigate that was advancing in the distance. The warship's void shield flickered like a scream for a moment and then suddenly stopped, breaking through instantly. Shield, the crimson laser instantly penetrated the battleship, completely piercing it from bow to stern.

The frigate exploded and disintegrated instantly, and the sprayed flames filled the space like blood. The exploding warship instantly illuminated the entire night sky, illuminating the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit sailing on its side.

Abaddon Company's face was illuminated by the firelight of the explosion. The Warmaster looked at the frigate that exploded and disintegrated and suddenly howled. He laughed with an almost crazy laugh and raised his power claw, "I Accept your challenge, Vito!”

"All fleets, get ready!" Abaddon roared and pointed his lightning claws at Terra. Almost at the same time, Captain Cole on the Infinite Frontier pointed his claws at each other. He slowly drew out the navy sword on his waist, raised the golden power scimitar high, and then swung it down to the Chaos fleet in the distance.

"Fire!" Cole slashed down his sword and shouted at the same time as Abaddon. Their roars turned into the roar of war. The macro cannons and light spears began to roar. The whistling shells and laser beams bombarded each other on both sides of the universe curtain. In the collision of blood and fire, the defense of Terra officially began.